The governments of the United States and Mexico presented on Monday the wide range of exchanges that they can carry out on issues as dissimilar as the automotive industry, security, immigration or the fight against drug trafficking.
The declarations took place in Mexico City, within the framework of the second meeting of the High-Level Economic Dialogue between both nations and that is chaired, by the US side, by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and, by the Mexican, by Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard.
“Our automotive industry leaders are sharing information and best practices to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles, which, along with other clean energy technologies, are critical to creating new jobs and addressing the global climate crisis,” Blinken said. the word.
Blinken emphasized the current state of trade relations between the two nations, which, he assured, “even exceeded pre-pandemic levels.” Mexico is the second largest trading partner of the US, with a monetary flow that exceeds 7,000 million dollars and employs more than one million people.
The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on a previous meeting between Blinken and Ebrard in which they discussed migration, technical development and arms trafficking that occurs through the land border.
Both diplomats took advantage of the aside to exchange their points of view on the strategies “to face the shared threat of the production and trafficking of fentanyl, the approach to migration in a safe, orderly and humane manner, including through the implementation of the Agreement of Los Angeles,” the State Department said in a reading of the statement.
The US Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, reported that both countries are interested in “increasing cross-border investment” and said that after a meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and of which no details were disclosed, the shared priorities that most advancing are those in supply chains, information and communication technology, cybersecurity, and workforce development.
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